SFPD releases video of fatal shooting of man in Mission District

Patricia Torres (center), sister of Jesus Delgado Duarte, reacts as body camera footage is shown during a town hall meeting to discuss Delgado Duarte’s shooting death at the hands of police.

Patricia Torres (center), sister of Jesus Delgado Duarte, reacts as body camera footage is shown during a town hall meeting to discuss Delgado Duarte’s shooting death at the hands of police.

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Victor Picazo gets up and yells at the police command staff during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Jesus Delgado Duarte.

Victor Picazo gets up and yells at the police command staff during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Jesus Delgado Duarte.

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Gina Padilla hugs Jose Delgado, the father of Jesus Delgado Duarte during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Delgado Duarte.

Gina Padilla hugs Jose Delgado, the father of Jesus Delgado Duarte during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Delgado Duarte.

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The family of Jesus Delgado Duarte listen to the community speak during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Delgado Duarte.

The family of Jesus Delgado Duarte listen to the community speak during a town hall meeting with police to update the community on the investigation of the police involved shooting of Delgado Duarte.

Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle

SFPD releases video of fatal shooting of man in Mission District

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Ten San Francisco police officers fired 99 times at an armed robbery suspect, killing him in the trunk of a car in the city’s Mission District after he fired first on police, department officials said during a boisterous town hall meeting Monday.

Delgado Duarte was hit 25 times in the flurry of gunfire and was pronounced dead at the scene.

“You guys took him from my mom,” Delgado Duarte’s brother said to a panel of the department’s command staff, including Chief Bill Scott. “You don’t know how bad she’s suffered. So please don’t tell me that you’re sorry. One of the reasons you’re not sorry is because you’re able to finish your day and go home and look at your kids in the eyes and tell them you love them. My mom doesn’t have that anymore.”

Three people in the overflow crowd held signs reading “Jail Killer Cops” and “Justice 4 Jesus” as members of the audience shouted at the police officers in the room. At one point the crowed erupted, chanting “asesinos,” Spanish for killers.

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The San Francisco Police Department released body camera footage of the tense moments before officers opened fire on Jesus Delgado Duarte, an armed 19-year-old burglary suspect in the Mission District on March 6, 2018.

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Scott started the evening by giving condolences to Delgado Duarte’s family. “We fully understand that any loss of life is tragic and that many people are deeply impacted by Mr. Delgado’s death,” he said.

Police then showed security video of the lead-up to the shooting. A black Honda Civic is seen pulling over along Capp Street near 21st Street and a man, identified by police as Delgado Duarte, exits the car and walks northbound on the sidewalk.

While the man walks away from the car, the driver gets out, opens the trunk and waits.

Moments later, Delgado Duarte robbed two people on the street at gunpoint and ran back to the car and jumped into the trunk, police said.

The victims, though, quickly flagged down two uniformed officers, police said, and a marked patrol vehicle is seen in the video pulling the car over. Several more officers speed to the scene and surround the vehicle with their guns drawn.

Footage from several of the body-worn cameras shows the driver, later identified as 19-year-old Victor Navarro-Flores, surrender to police. Delgado Duarte is seen tucked in the partially-open trunk while officers order him to show his hands in English until a Spanish-speaking officer arrives minutes later to give the command in Spanish.

Police recovered a 9mm pistol in the trunk and said evidence shows Delgado Duarte fired one round from the weapon.

After the gunfire stopped, 18-year-old Cristina Juarez and a dog were found unharmed inside the Honda. Navarro-Flores pleaded not guilty to second degree robbery charges in the case and was placed on supervised release. Juarez was arrested at the scene but released after the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against her.

The shooting immediately drew intense outcry from members of the Mission District community, where Delgado Duarte grew up and worked after being brought to the United States from Mexico as an infant. Protesters last week marched from the scene of the shooting, marked by a memorial of flowers and candles, to Mission Station.

“If this community has allowed this force to work in this community, you also must be accountable,” Nancy Pili said to police Monday night.